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NEVADA STATE JOURNAL RENO NEVADA RIDAY APRIL 6 1945 PAGE OUR GALLUP POLL By Ed Dodd BACK HOME AGAIN The Why of Taxes Nruaba £tatr Smtrnal OUR KIDS i I in I ly wood ansa A He the the that man that pre case (abbr) 25 Anxiously 26 Kettle 28 Stick to 30 Neuter pronoun 31 Becomes white 32 illed with solemn wonder 33 alsehood 34 Insect The newly appointed minister of Syria Dr Nazem Koudsi called on me in the afternoon and a little later I had the pleasure of seeing Mrs Carter Collins of ort Ben ning Georgia Miss Katherine Len root of the Bureau ha? been telling me about her for some time since she has done a great deal of work with army wives there At 5 Miss Gertrude War ren of the Department of Agricul ture brought Sgt Lester Schlup to see me to tell me of Edison college in lorida This is Easter Sunday and Miss Thompson and I as usual went to the early service at the Unknown Soldier's tomb conducted by the Grand Encampment of Knights Templar At 11 o'clock with some of my other guests I went to the services at St Thomas church A few friends came to lunch and my two nieces from school and col lege are here for their short Easter vacation so we have quite a family party to which my old friend Mrs Charles ayerweather of New Leb anon is added 35 Walking stick 38 Wet earth 39 Swine Stories about newspaermen are as arresting as the yarns they write Horace Greeley inspired some of lhe best bits of newspaperman stuff He was once parked in a hotel lobby reading his Tribune when a stranger informed him: never read that sheet I feed it to my Greeley merely intoned: "If you continue reading other papers and feed your goats these Tribunes one fine day wake up and find that your goats know more than you When Joseph Pulitzer retired he sent his staff a message which de serves to be framed in every news office The Pulitzer prize ad vice is now a part of the masthead of a St Louis newspaper: "I know that my retirement will make no difference in its cardinal principles that it will always fight for prog ress and reform never tolerate in justice or corruption always fight demagogues never belong to any party always oppose privileged classes and public plunderers never lack sympathy for the poor always remain devoted to the public wel fare never be satisfied with merely printing the WASHINGTON April 5 The senate yesterday passed and sent to the White House a bill to extend the life of the Commodity Credit Corp to June 30 1947 and to raise its borrowing power to $4750000000 The CCC is the agency that pays most of the food subsidies Passage was i vote of 46 to 32 crats who voted were Sens Harry Scott Lucas Ill I and Lee killed and miss attention The supreme DAILY ACROSS 1 Comrades 6 Slice 9 Skill 10 Part of a whole 12 Not made 13 Nimble 14 Little girl 15 Come into view 17 Jackdaw (Scot) 18 Game on horseback 20 Officer of the day (abbr) 21 Tastes slightly 22 Hastened 24 Onions 26 Throb 27 Arrived 28 Pith 29 Government Issue (abbr) 30 Particle 31 Eastern state (abbr) 33 Extent 35 Cry of a crow 36 Metal I 37 Pierce with a pale 40 Girl's name 41 Destroyed 42 Still 43 Borders down 1 Craze 2 Charitable gifts 3 Beverage 4 Rerpnant LOS ANGELES April 5 The proposal to preserve the San Gabriel Calif home in which Lt Gen Geoge Patton was born had to be altered today The adobe house was razed in 1910 So County Supervisor William A Smith changed his suggestion to preserve the Patton birthplace proposed the adobe house be re stored as a suitable museum in honor and donated a dol lar to start off a public subscrip tion drive WASHINGTON Sunday I had some very pleasant guests at lunch yesterday One of them just back from Europe and stationed here for a short time was able to tell me news of our son in that area In ad dition one of my cousins has brought his little boy to spend Eas ter and I know nothing nicer than the undisguised enthusiasm of a lit tle child! He walked out in the White House grounds Saturday morning looked all about and said to his father: this a beautiful place The rest of us may think it but we so rarely say it As I walked along the street Sat urday morning I saw something which amused me greatly A sailor and his wife or perhaps it may have been his girl were walking down the street She handed him her bag the better to play with a very lovely new fur jacket She was so evident ly showing it off and in spite of the fact that I knew she must be very warm I could not help feeling pleased for her that she had on something which gave her so much pleasure It is wonderful to be young when can give you pleasure! isi la IQ The same tome also offers a de lightful anecdote about Gen Eisen hower's mother Whenever sol diers pass her home at Abilene Kan she proudly remarks to neigh bors: "I have a son in the army DEAR STA: Hidden away in the backwater ed dies of this hurly burly town are many little human dramas would have delighted such a as Henry or instance: noticed for months each Wednesday evening at cisely six o'clock a sleek limou sine driven bya uniformed chauf feur pulls up in front of a shabby rooming hdiise that I pass on my way home rom the limousine stops an elderly gentleman clad immaculately in a somewhat out moded dress suit He marches to the rooming house door rings the bell and returns a moment or two later accompanied by an elderly lady who is gowned like a dowager queen The contrast between the car and the costumes on the one hand and the shabbiness of the house on the other excited my curiosity until I finally made some inquir ies And what I discovered: The elderly lady at the turn of the century was one of Broad greatest stars the gentle man a matinee idol forty years ago but only a nameless extra to day has been her constant admir er for nearly half a century both impoverished now but not too poor either in money or in the romantic spirit that is more precious than money to in dulge themselves once a week in a toast to the past by dining in a good hotel and being conveyed there in a rented limousine be took quick to laugh at them I think the world would be a far better place to grow old in if more people were like these two veterans JIMMIE IDLER When he was given the Peabody i a auaru lur uuibiiiiiuiiiE radio humor oVer a period of 12 red Allen was introduced on the air this way: great men of American said the announcer are Mark Twain Will Rogers and red state humor is Allen ad libbed of them are dead and one is out of tragically high Even the wounds that will heal in time can cause terrible anguish and suffering No one would for a moment at tempt to belittle what the wounded have gone through or what many of them will have to endure for weary months to come But it is a slight comfort to remember that 98 every 100 sailors and marines wounded in the last three years have recovered and that these men have an equal chance MT SAVAGE Md April 5 (UR) William Wharton 18 ycar old merchant seaman home oh leave is plenty tough So are Nevin Lashley 17 and Donald Meanyhan 16 Each shot himself in the leg to prove it State Police Sgt Harold Carl reported today Wharton started it by firing a bullet into the calf of his left leg Then he handed the gun to Lash ley who followed suit aim was faulty he shot himself in the left ankle The 18 year old was sentenced to 60 days in jail for what the authorities called disorderly con duct The others will be tried in juvenile court on a party line The only Demo against the bill Byrd Va Peter Gerry Tex Under present law the CCC is scheduled to expire on June 30 and has a borrowing power of only $3000000000 5 Lads Accept Dare To Shoot Selves By GEORGE GALLUP i Director American Institute of Public Opinion PRINCETON April 5 As the end of the war in Europe looms in sight the American pub lic is less worried about the prob lem of establishing a lasting peace than it is about jobs here at home after the war and other practical matters affecting the pocketbook A survey of civilian worries just completed by the Institute finds that for every person who thinks that the problem of how to estab lish a durable peace is the number one problem ahead there are more than two who say that creating jobs or solving post war economic headaches in the are the most vital issues we will have to face In short there seems little doubt that Henry A Wallace in his much publicized concern over post war employment and production is closely attuned to the public mind so tar as national issues are con cerned Controlling of labor unions re habilitation of veterans the prob lem of race discrimination and what to do about juvenile delin quency are among other issues named by the public as pressing questions for the immediate future In making its census of public worries the Institute questioned a true cross section of the civilian population in all the 48 states using methods which proved accu rate within 18 per cent in fore casting the outcome of the last presidential election The coast to coast cross section was asked: from winning the war what do you think is the most important problem facing this country No list of any kind was handed the voter all replies were given spontaneously and taken down verbatim by interviewers for the Institute analyzed the replies fell into the following general cate gories The percentages total more than 100 because some people named more than one problem 1 Jobs for everyone after the war prevent future unemploy ment make sure soldiers all get jobs 20 2 Solve economic problems pre vent inflation prevent depression get war paid for without devalu ing currency paying off national debt reconversion of industry and other economic problems 16 3 A permanent world peace make a lasting peace world polic ing handling of Axis powers 15 4 Labor union troubles labor vs capital strikes curbing and con trolling unions 10 5 Rehabilitating returning vet erans wounded and maimed 6 i 6 How to reduce government i control and stimulate free enter prise 5 7 Racial and color tolerance how to keep harmony between races and religious creeds in 5 8 ood shortages here and abroad rationing clothing short ages 5 9 Juvenile delinquency 3 10 Return to religion clos er to the 2 Miscellaneous problems 8 No problem named 10 Home Razed in 1910 SUPREME HEADQUARTERS April 5 Gen Dwight Eisenhower the new of the fan mail now receives almost as many let ters as rank Sinatra rom ever j' corner of the free world people write him for auto graphs and pictures One little boy asked for a ine Tiger Hundreds of letters pour into his headquarters every week They come by airmail and mail Scores are rain drenched and caked with mud from frontline troops in Ger many Some are penny postcards But no matter whom they're from they all get the same per sonal commander of the Allied Expedi tionary orce takes time off from the important job of running a war to answer each one even if it means working an extra hour at night By DRYDEN KUSER 1 Director Nevada Taxpayers Association While we have been recently thinking mostly in terms of Car son City there have been im portant developments in Wash ington The debt limit has now been raised to $300 billion With the present optimistic war news it would appear that $350 billion should be nearly the top after which of course we will have to find some way of greatly reducing this and avoiding the tremedous interest cost which cost would approximate one third of the total annual cost of government General federal tax revision wall probably not occur until 1946 Al though relief will be given in cer tain types of corjorate taxes it is still too early and will continue to be too early to tell just what will be done until after the end of the European war course any reduction in taxes will be de pendent upon how nearly the present national income can be maintained Upon this score there are all kinds of guesses It is ob vious that there will be a drop after the European war and a greater drop at the end of the Jap anese war How soon and how far civilian production will take up the slack is the crux of the entire matter Senator Byrd has submitted for his "Reduction of Nonessential ederal Expenditures another progress report It showed that of the now authorized $300 billion capital debt permitted $235123000000 was actually owed as of March 15th which means a gross per capita debt of $1680 or approximately $4600 per capita taxpayer Considering that the committee has only expended $46 000 during its entire existence and has effected in direct savings to the taxpayers $2457000000 its accomplishments cannot be under estimated It should definitely be a continuing force in congress and particularly after the war when the war can no longer serve as an excuse for some expenditures which we believe even now are un necessary It will have a real job ahead of it We note with continued alarm the trend toward the broadening of the Social Security program There are those who much as they disagree with it are beginning to feel that a socializing of much of our economic system is inevitable We just refuse to believe that It is diametrically opposed to the American way of life for 150 years that we cannot resign ourselves to the fact that the great mass of American workers will allow them selves to be led into this land of opium dreams The strange thing is that it is all done in the name of the workers and as we have pointed out in this column before they will be the true sufferers Along this line the house of rep resentatives within 1he past week unanimously adopted HR 204 authorizing the expenditure of $50000 to study the financing of the Social Security program and authorizing recommendations for broadening the program During the recent discussion of the gambling tax bill it was pointed qut as a by thought that after all at least among the own ers of the larger gambling estab lishments it would only mean an actual output by them of from 10 to 30 per cent as the rest would be federal income tax deductible This has again brought to our mind what has occurred in many similar cases regarding income tax deduc tions The argument follows along the line that such deductions are a real saving with no loss to any one It fails to take into consider ation the obvious fact that for 'every unanticipated deduction the federal government will receive just that much less on its present basis of taxation and therefore will have to increase the tax rate just that muct more to make up for these losses After all it is we the people who are paying these taxes and when just so much money has to be raised if it come out of one pocket it is going to come out of another Senate Approves CCC Extension RED BALL HIGHWAY In the last war transportation in rance was under Atterbury president of the Penn sylvania railroad In this war transportation and supply distribution have been kept under profes sional army men Instead of recruiting railroad and trucking experts two West Pointers Lieut Gen John Clifford Hodges Lee and his deputy Brig Gen Royal Lord took over the job Criticism of supply has been such inside the army that General Marshall ordered a personal probe and even Gen Somerwell in Command of services of supply wrote a critical four page re port and sent Maj Gen Leroy Lutes to rance to report on the situation Lutes took with him a staff of colonels made a thorough survey and submitted a blistering report urging that the entire supply set up in rance be including those in command Endless meetings followed in the Pentagon build ing at which efforts were made to patch up the mistakes This was at the time when an army pro paganda drive talked about failures on the home front and said that men in the front lines were left without supplies Meanwhile a representative of Time magazine was taken in General Lee's special airplane for a tour of the supply front and later published a glow ing description of the supply job That description however did not correspond with the highly critical report of General Lutes One criticism was that the much advertised ball under Maj Gen rank Ross was not sufficient to carry war goods from the channel ports to the front Meanwhile insufficient railroad troops and equipment were brought to rance to repair the battered rench railroads SUPPLIES GET MIXED Another criticism was that supply officers had mixed up the bills of lading so that some ships had to sit for days while a complete inventory of cargo was retaken Also supplies got so mixed that a front line commander needing 105 mm shells would get carloads of 155 mm while an outfit wanting rations would get a mountain of rations As a result front line commanders complained that they start an offensive for fear their supply lines would fail to keep up with them This situation is believed partly responsible for General inability to launch a full strength general offensive simultaneously along the western front last fall General Somervell himself made a personal in spection of the situation and assigned Maj Gen Thomas Larkin to prop up Lee and Lord Mean while the Pentagon building has been worried over rumors that the Mead committee might check into the whole supply situation especially warehouses of supplies stockpiled in England for the invasion which never will be used Some day the Mead committee may dig out the real facts as to whether the supply breakdown was actually the fault of the home front as maintained by the war department last fall If so it will make interesting reading NIGHT WALKER BIDDLE A young man with a radio in his car drove up to an apartment house in Washington called Dum barton courts not far from Dumbarton Oaks He parked the car went into the apartment where he lived undressed and went to bed Maybe he was drunk maybe he was deaf any way he left his radio on and loud There it sat blaring away into the night The house next to Dumbarton courts is the resi dence of the attorney general of the United States rancis Biddle The attorney general was in bed asleep But he was awakened pronto So were other members of his family Nobody will testify as to what Mr Biddle said but the chances are it was unprintable But what he did was much more effective put on a robe over his pajamas walked out on street reached into the car and switched off offending radio As he crawled back into bed the attorney general of the United States was heard to say ought to be a law against things like STRIKE VOTE On the day the strike vote was taken among the bituminous coal miners the National Labor Rela tions board paid $35 a day to students of the Uni versity of West Virginia both men and co eds to stand at the mouth of the mines and take the vote in the Morgantown area The government also fur nished transportation The college students worked a twelve hour 'day but even so some of them felt they were overpaid The ballot they asked the miners to sign as they came out of the mines read: "Do you wish to per mit an interruption of war production in wartime as a result of this The mountaineers around Morgarttown voted 8 to 1 Actually tnany of them want to vote that way but on the other hand want to let down their chief John Lewis WHAT MEANS Like every other variety of statistics casualty figures jire apt to be misleading unless it is explained pricisely what they mean The term covers every thing from men with a cut finger to soldiers who may be terribly crippled for life Among the missing are troops temporarily separated from their units soldiers who have fallen into the hands of the enemy and others who will never return Secretary of the Navy orrestal's break down of the marine casualties in the bloody battle of Iwo Jima will help Americans to understand more clearly what the figures mean In addition to the 4600 ing in taking this island 15300 received wounds of varying degree But this does not imply as Mr orrestal points out that all of the 15300 were put out of action permanently or even for a protract ed period of time Between 6000 and 7000 of the total in fact had recovered sufficiently to return to their divisions'before the fall of the island On the basis of experience it isreasonable to hope that 5000 more will be fully restored to health If these hopes are realized between 11000 and 12000 of the wounded will be able return to normal active lives This is not to say that the losses sufferedby the marines on Iwo were not horrible and NOTES A NEW YORK NEWSBOY An exciting hiog of a fine Ameri can (Winston) by Miller contains this interesting paragraph: "Gen Eisenhower was aroused to outbursts of indignation at the subversive groups that were giving 'aid and comfort to the ene at a time of our peril Ike's scathing remarks would scorch this paper He had no toler ance for the deaf dumb and blind who could not see what was sure to happen if we failed to heed the warnings The Axis was out to conquer the world and enslave humanity Nazism and ascism must be crushed if human freedom was to be saved Eisen hower had become known as Ike' because of his con stant Move over Walter and make room for Eisenhower! More Worried By Jobs Than Lasting Peace Scrambled Eggs: Another tome this reporter boosted has zoomed into the best seller lists: Wendell It rates its popu larity The title of a magazine article is: "Careers are Carved Not We used that line a long time ago The author should send part of the loot for that title to the Red Cross If you knew all the time money and energy the city uses to give New Yorkers the coun best drinking water you spoil it by mixing it with hooch Once again a rumor about the end of the European war lias swept the town It recalls what Mark Twain once said: lying rumor can travel around the world while the truth is getting its pants Among the strange sidelights of the war is the almost complete brush off most newspapers have given to the fighting in Burma Re ports of the battles in that sector are buried on inside pages or ig nored Many Americans will prob ably be surprised to learn that bit ter fighting has taken place there which has resulted in important Al lied victories And the battles are continuing During the past year the amount of Japs killed in the Burma equals the I Tntsr nT in 1 HP nuniutT ut Pacific! iEp tht EPK ROW $900 600 300 100 By mall to outside Nevada and Northern California 600 100 WASHINGTON Over in the Pentagon building the military problem which the generals are watch ing and worrying about most today is supplies Actually it's not the production of supplies on the home front which so much concerns the army but getting them from the channel ports to the fast moving western front If gasoline bread and bul lets can keep up with the tanks and armored cars of Generals Patton Simpson and Hodges then not much in the way of German resistance is expected But the inside fact during last lightning advance was that he ran out of gas and supplies: and he stayed out of gas and supplies for 12 long days He was powerless to move That was the turning point in the war last year This hitherto untold chapter of the western front campaign occurred in September after spectacular tank dash across rance to the edge of Germany It reveals one of the sore spots in the European picture and one reason why the military schedule which called for victory last autumn got sidetracked General Patton whom the Germans fear most had been rushed out ahead and was being used as a decoy to divert attention from the 1st and 9th armies which were scheduled to mass against the more vulnerable northwest German border But Patton ran out of gasoline and had to wait chew ing his nails with empty fuel tanks General Eisenhower ordered mountains of sup plies sent direct from the United States But al though civilian production at home got the blame the real bottleneck was not in the United States but with the distribution system in rance In fact this has been the subject of drastic inside in vestigation by top generals in the Pentagon build ing MIO Ml ase MY DAY BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Memher Audit Bureau of Circulation ull Leased umwu SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bv Carrier 25c per week in Reno and Sparks tJy Niall 111 nevaua One Year Six Months Three Months a XfAnth One Year Six Months By mall to men Yn Vh'e armed services anywhere in the world 50c per month A 5 2b Answer Pet quadruplet on the subject of Spring by John Drinkwater: Ana not a girl goes walking along the Cotswold Lanes but knows men eyes in April are quicker than their aW eM pTa EHL AIM RS nTe MP PE LIE EM sjl I just received word that April 2 through 7 will be observed by a quarter of a million boys through out the country as National Week This year will mark the 39th anniversary of the founding of Clubs of America a philan thropic organization headed by the Hon Herbert Hoover There are 250 member clubs wjiich provide places for wholesome recreation under constructive leadership for boys in congested areas This year the boy are saving their pennies to buy portable ice cream plant to send to some soldiers in the Pacific an Mail Rivals Even rankie CROSSWORD 5 23 rom 6 Pointed end prefix as on a tooth 24 Lower 7 Depopulate 8 Long drawn speeches 9 Elongated tooth 11 Norse god 16 Italian river 18 ish 19 Goddess of harvests 21 American Indian 22 A chapter of the Koran DEAR BOSS: Did you actually verify the fact that the old lady is poor or do you merely assume that she is impoverished because she lives in a rooming house? At the risk of clouding your story we want to point out that living quarters have nothing to do with bank accounts these days No kidding in one of the local papers this morning a 24 foot house trailer is offered for rent for $60 a month! To get down to our proper key hole level: All is not well between 20th Century ox and James Dunri who's burning about being handed two roles in low budget pictures after scoring a hit in "A Tree Grows in or your chuckle dept: Betty Rowland noted for years as a strip teaser in burlesque is listed Jn the new casting directory of an Rena daughter) Mor gan now working in a Hollywood publicity office says sue any producer who attempts to screen her life story The rank and file of the newly accredited Screen Players Union are almost unanimous in predict ing a new strike as the of NLRB decision denying their or ganization jurisdiction over bit players Sylvia Sidney long estranged from hubby Luther Adler and portrait painter let cher have ro mance Bette Davis says that Sgt Louis Riley to whom she wasrumored wed is overseas and she heard from him in months RUSSIA AND JAPAN Will denun ciation of her neutrality pact with Japan he fol fowed in the near future by the opening of Rus sian bases in the vicinity of Japan to Allied planes and Allied forces? Are the Russians ready to meet the Japanese in battle along the Siberian Manchukuo border? These questions will remain unanswered for a short time but they are important and the hope is that they will be answered in the affirmative With the Americans coming up from the south in force to cut off the Japanese supply lines and perhaps to invade the Chinese coast in the vicinity of Shanghai the Russians are in position if their Siberian forces are suf ficient to join the Americans in a squeeze play that could be disastrous for the Japan ese and could shorten the Pacific war rom authentic reports it appears that real army is based in Manchukuo and Korea Veterans of the long war with China the Japanese home defense army is made up of seasoned fighters well equipped but supply sources are being cut off rapidly by the Americans and regardless of the great resources of Manchukuo it should not take long to drive the Japanese into a pocket if the Russians begin banging away on one side and the Americans and British on the other Vladivostock as a base for American planes would clear the way for a shuttle service from recently captured island bases for American bombers to plaster industrial areas of the Japanese island empire as well as the Manchukuo industrial districts and the Chinese areas held by the Japanese In denouncing the pact with the Japanese Moscow made it plain that the break was final and that writing of another pact is out of the question That being the case it appears that the next step on the part of Josef Stalin may be one of positive action in which he will bring Russia into the battle of Asia Changes in the Japanese cabinet an nounced yesterday almost simultaneously with the Moscow announcement may not mean a thing as the Japanese have been squirming around for weeks trying to save face and it is doubtful if Emperor Hirohito can find a way out regardless of shifts in the government The army clique with its pol icy of rule or ruin is too firmly entrenched to be supplanted by a government which can command one bit of confidence or respect on the part of other nations situation is very similar to that of Germany although Japan still has a government while the Nazis seem to be running out on their country co save their own necks Coming prior to the opening of the San rancisco conference of nations the action of Russia combined with the shakeup in Japan could have somebearing on the trend of the conference But entry into the war against Japan could go far toward bringing a quicker end to the world conflict and the thing the world wants TIE Wgg I A WT eIgWyTm pTayeesh5a hammiest act is Cong pose as a friend of American soldiers He was the one who attempted to deprive them ot their voting rights A few days ago bills were introduced in the House dealing with the rights of foreign born American soldiers Rankin opposed the bills and sneer ingly referred to foreign born sol diers as Those foreign born American sol diers are doing something that Ran kin never did: ighting and dying for America The Washington Merry Go Round BY DREW PEARSON Ham silence in recent months has been more enjoyable than anything he ever said No one has worked harder than Hambo for what he deserves oblivion Add Good News: One of the Bund camps in New Jersey has been turned into a boys' vacation camp Happy to learn that a part of the once again belongs to America The legit stage takes bows as a haven for intellectual issues Yet the sea son has produced only one expert play on a serious theme: Bell for Trend of lhe Times: We used to hear a great deal about Nazi supermen now we hear more about American superfortresses eIl A El i MAN Established November 23 1870 A Newspaper for the Home Merritt Speidel President Joseph McDonald Editor Joe Melcher Advertising Manage The Nevada rgMilzatlonpromoting taSts of the community and the home KnM Biding Center Street Reno Nevada Seattle Portland St Louis Cleveland you SO A MAW VicX MAW IT WAS YORE I IRST 1 YOU Hit iDEAiSREASY'" RAMl! 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